The National Review on Monday deemed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem the single-most “incompetent” official under President Donald Trump, citing her remarks on Saturday’s fatal shooting and begging for her to be fired — ideally “into the sun.”
While the conservative magazine has broken with Trump over various issues before, staff writer Jeffrey Blehar argues that Noem has become his biggest problem and has exacerbated sky-high tensions after U.S Customs and Border Protection agents fatally shot Alex Pretti.
“I will say this: Any hope of Trump’s presidency clawing its way out of the hole it has dug for itself begins with firing Kristi Noem, current secretary of homeland security and the administration’s most prominent ‘ridealong disaster’ during its first year,” wrote Blehar.
He continued, “Preferably out of a rocket, and into the sun.”
Blehar was arguing that the Trump administration is in dire need of damage control after federal agents in Minneapolis were filmed disarming Pretti, who lawfully had a gun on his person while documenting local protests, and fatally shooting the 37-year-old ICU nurse.
